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Robert Cohen
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Adjunct Professor of German
Ph.D. 1988, New York University

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Research Interests:

20th century German literature; Weimar modernism and avant garde; literary representations of the Holocaust; Marxist literary theory; Bertolt Brecht; Peter Weiss.

Affiliations:

Modern Language Association; The International Brecht Society; Anna-Seghers-Gesellschaft; Internationale Peter Weiss Gesellschaft; Society for Exile Studies.

Fellowships/Honors:

1994 Choice "Outstanding Academic Book Award" for Understanding Peter Weiss.

Selected Works:

  • "Künftiger Ruhm der Retortenstadt Brasília. Aus Anlass von Oscar Niemeyers 100. Geburtstag." Das Argument, 1/2008.
  • "Nichtrationaler Diskurs in einem Werk der Vernunft. Peter Weiss' Roman 'Die Ästhetik des Widerstands'." Protest, Opposition, Widerstand. Die Ambivalenz der Moderne, vol. IV. Hanns-Werner Heister (ed.), 2007.
  • "Brechts ästhetische Theorie in den ersten Jahren des Exils." Aesthetiken des Exils. Helga Schreckenberger (ed.), 2003.
  • "Seghers. Amado. Brasilien." Argonautschenschiff (Yearbook of the International Anna Seghers Society), 2001.
  • "Identitätspolitik als politische Ästhetik. Peter Weiss' 'Ermittlung' im amerikanischen Holocaustdiskurs." 'Niemand zeugt für den Zeugen.' Erinnerungskultur nach der Shoah. Ulrich Baer (ed.), 2000.
  • "A Dream of Dada and Lenin: Peter Weiss's Trotsky in Exile." Rethinking Peter Weiss. Jost Hermand and Marc Silberman (eds.), 2000.
  • "Auschwitzsprache. Zu Heimrad Bäckers 'nachschrift'." Peter Weiss Jahrbuch, 1999.
  • "Brechts 'Furcht und Elend des III. Reiches und der Status des Gestus." The Brecht Yearbook, 1999.
  • "Nonrational Discourse in a Work of Reason: Peter Weiss's Antifascist Novel 'Die Ästhetik des Widerstands'." European Memories of the Second World War. Helmut Peitsch, Charles Burdett, and Claire Gorrara (eds.), 1999.
  • "Grossstadtlyrik Bertolt Brechts." Das Argument, 1998.
  • "The Political Aesthetics of Holocaust Literature: Peter Weiss's 'The Investigation' and its Critics." History & Memory, 1998.

  • [edited book] Peter Weiss: Marat/Sade, The Investigation, and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman (The German Library, vol. 92). New York: Continuum, 1998.

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